As you know, we really try to stick to listening to music in Spanish as much as possible, but have recently fallen head over heels with Lucky Diaz and the Family Jam Band’s A Potluck CD. We played it once in our car – our favorite place to jam and sing-out-loud – and we were instantly hooked to the fun, vibrant and eclectic sounds coming out of the speakers.

You know when a song is so good and catchy that you feel you even know the lyrics already and have this insane need to join the groove? That´s what happens when you listen to the very first song, “Lines and Dots,” and then intensifies with “On My Bike,” my girl’s favorite and most-requested song at the time. For me, it’s a welcomed sound of the indie music that I choose to listen to, but this one my girl, my husband and I can have a dance party to.

Then, I found out the inspiration for Lucky Diaz’s sounds and captivating lyrics come from the Los Angeles neighborhood they live in – Silverlake. Well, that’s the eclectic, hipster , diverse neighborhood where we lived for many years and where Camila was born, so for sure we feel a connection here!

“One of our neighbors is Salvadoran and has a whole flock of fowl in his front yard,” explains Diaz. Diaz adapted a traditional children’s rhyme by Mexican star “Cri Cri,” which his grandmother told him as a child for the song “Tres Ratones” (Three Mice). This is the only song in Spanish and one you can fearlessly set on repeat.

The whole album’s message is one of connecting and intersecting lives and embracing the diversity that surrounds us.

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Alicia Maher was born in El Salvador and resides in Los Angeles CA since 1986. She learned to cook at a young age authentic Salvadoran food from her grandmother, great aunts, aunts and her Salvadoran friends. For almost thirty years Alicia has passionately carried and shared her country and ancestors’ culinary traditions with family and friends. In her cookbook Delicious El Salvador: 75 Authentic Recipes for Traditional Salvadoran Cooking, she sets out to preserve and teach El Salvador’s home cooking history, flavors and dishes to future generations. She is also the former owner of two full service bakeries in the Los Angeles area, and has taught private cooking classes for the last five years. Before moving to Southern California, Alicia lived in Israel and Washington, D.C. She graduated from UCLA in 1992 with a BA in Art History. Alicia has been married to Joseph since 1988; they are the parents of three sons. Delicious El Salvador: 75 Authentic Recipes for Traditional Salvadoran Cooking is her first book.